J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rambouillet, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rambouillet, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
Rambouillet, Île-de-France 1832
D24227
Turner Bequest CCLVII 31a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with a study of the chateau and town of Rambouillet, located some thirty miles south-west of Paris. Glimpsed at the centre of the page between the trunks of trees, the house is identifiable by the conical roofs of its corner towers. Turner made several sketches of this site in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Rambouillet, Île-de-France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-rambouillet-le-de-france-r1175255, accessed 24 April 2024.